Execution

Extremely concerned’ by plans to execute 55-year-old Khizar Hayat, says World Psychiatric Association

Incident was widely condemned in Afghanistan with many saying the action refreshed memories of harsh Taliban rule

Chinese courts have a conviction rate of 99.92 per cent

Prince Turki bin Saud al-Kabir was put to death in Riyadh for shooting dead Adel al-Mahemid, a Saudi, during a brawl

Imdad Ali could receive a new ‘black warrant’ and face execution as early as next Tuesday

Petitioners’ counsel said the sentence was handed in violation of the Army Act

Two senior regime officers reported to have been killed

Wood's due process had been violated by false testimony and scientific evidence

The group, including foreigners, has been placed in isolation on a prison island where Jakarta carries out executions

Indonesian authorities are preparing to execute three foreign prisoners, including citizens of Nigeria and Zimbabwe

Zulfiqar Ali, 52, was transferred on Monday to Nusakambangan prison island off Java where executions take place

Saudi Arabia's growing use of death penalty prompts Amnesty International to call for an "immediate" moratorium

Saudi Arabia is the third most prolific executioner after Iran and Pakistan

Condemned include Qayyum Bacha who killed four soldiers in Swat in 2009

The gang killed the branch manager of state-run Bangladesh Commerce Bank to get the key to the vault

Mohammed Ishaq Thawab Gul was found guilty of trafficking heroin into the kingdom, interior ministry says

Maher al-Ghurabli was found guilty of smuggling amphetamine pills into the kingdom, says interior ministry

Mufreh al-Harissi was found guilty of stabbing to death a fellow Saudi during a dispute

The murders this week in the village of Peebles -- a rural community 80 miles east of Cincinnati

Court orders jail authorities to provide Abdul Basit’s lawyers with his MRI scan

Their last meetings with families have been scheduled

Shah Zaman Khan Sayyed had been found guilty of attempting to smuggle heroin and amphetamines into the kingdom

Hussain al-Magaafi had been found guilty of fatally stabbing a fellow Saudi following an argument

The home department issued a black warrant against him three days before his execution

Nasir Mehmood and Tahir Iqbal were hanged for murdering six people from the same family in 2002

Amnesty says surge in worldwide executions highest since 1989

The two men disposed of the body, set his Jeep ablaze and then returned to drinking in the bar

Mehmood and Rab Nawaz were convicted of killing two security officials; Gen Raheel signed death warrants last year

Imam Maulana Habib Ur Rehman says he is 'disturbed' and 'upset' at news of Qadri's execution

Convicts include attacker of 2013 Nanga Parbat massacre

Mumtaz Qadri's fuenral was among the biggest funerals in Pakistan’s history, alongside those of Muhammad Ali Jinnah

It took a jury about 90 minutes to sentence him to death

The 71 executions so far this year include 47 death sentences for 'terrorism'

Bibi’s lawyer sayas religious groups have launched a “fresh offensive” against his client

Nearly 200 people participated in the protest

This brings to 68 the number of people the Kingdom has put to death this year

Qadri was hanged in Adiala jail early Monday morning in Rawalpindi

The death warrants were issued after his appeals were rejected by the Supreme Court

The kingdom executed 47 people in a single day on January 2 on terrorism charges

The execution was the 534th in Texas since the US Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976

Security arrangements were tightened in and around the prison during the execution

Ashraf Fayad has been sentenced to 800 lashes, in sessions of 50 lashes, according to his lawyer

Court has sentenced two men, Tudeng Gusang and Tsering Banjue, to death for murders of Akong and two other men

Amnesty figures suggest Pakistan is on track to become one of the world's top executioners in 2015

Yaser Qawza's execution raises the number of death sentences carried out by the kingdom this year to 52

The Iranian was on trial along with 25 Kuwaiti Shias

Amid the rallies, Saudi foreign minister postponed his visit to Islamabad

Head of Lebanon's Shia movement accuses Al-Saud family of seeking to spark "a conflict between Sunni and Shia" Muslims

The man was executed in the eastern city of Dammam after his conviction for shooting and murdering a fellow Saudi

Number of executions in Saudi Arabia this year is has reached 192